Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-18
THE CARE or INFANTS.
Deformities Which May be Avoided-De-
fective vision-Curious Cases.

Deformities Which May be Avoided-De-
fective vision-Curious Cases.
Perhaps from no other unsupported in
trinity does such a variety and complica-
ton of diseases arise as from defective
vision. This variety is almost infinite. 1t
is the marvel of the many that spectacles
are so prevalent in our day, and the wise
acres assign first one reason and then an
other-one laying it to tight lacing, an
other to high heeled shoes, forgetting that
spectacles are as common among men, as
among women. All combine, however,
to attack the oculists and declare that it
is all nonsense anyway, and merely an
effect of the imagination upon which the
oculists are but too willing to play. But
the truth never seems to strike this same
general public (the truth for which the
specialized ones have need to be so thank
full that the scientists who, for love of
their kind and their profession, have de-
voted their lives to the study of the sub
iect in all its ramifcations, have dis
covered a new way to treat old diseases,
|. e., by way Of the eye, instead of by
way of the stomach.
George grows pale and thin and stoop-
to study he becomes sick at the stomach.
AS this sickness seems to accompany the
effort of studying only, his father rather
fancies that it comes on because the boy
Dis obliged to go to school, and he seems
inclined to force matters with his son.
But the mother knows the reality of the
boys suffering. So she doctors him for
Indigestion little soda, a little lime
water, a little mint-all the harmless
remedies in fact that are written in the
mothers pharmacopeia, not forgetting to
give him liberal dose of warm water
once in a while as am emetic. But all
this care does him no permanent good.
The moment George begins to study again
or to read the old trouble is renewed. So
often does this occur that his mother de-
termines upon the advice of some one
wiser than herself.
MADAME, says the physician, 'syour
boy has no more dyspepsia than you
have. He is simply so near sighted that
he can hardly see beyond his nose. Get
spectacles for him. He is growing
round shouldered and hollow chested
from nothing else but continued effort
to see His sickness of stomach arises
liOul tue SftiIlc. cause. ldht away LIE
peppermint and give him glasses instead,
or what is better, put him into the hands
of some professional opthalmic surgeon.
The nerves are all in sympathy, and what
affects his eyes viii likewise affect. his
brain and stomach" The advice fol-
lowed, the boy is forthwith cured of his
dyspepsia. "a
In one case, well known to the writer,
q young girl was treated during three or
four years for violent spells of headache.
She took pounds of pills, pints of medi-
cine, for her head, for her stomach, for
her spine, for malarial disorders, for neu-
ralgia, for bile. Her hair grew gray and
she babe fair to sink into chronic inva-
idis1n. A brilliant idea struck her and
in three months spectacles had done for
her what dosing had not done for her in
three years. There had been a constant
strain Of the nerves Of eye and brain,
while the poor girl had been trying to fit
together two eyes Of entirely dissimilar
focus Emma G.. Hewitt